Indonesia blocks Steam, PayPal and other services over missed regulatory deadline

Indonesia is blocking residents from accessing various online platforms after those services failed to comply with a July 29th regulatory deadline, reports Reuters (via The Verge ). Among the affected platforms are PayPal, Steam and Yahoo (owned by Engadget's parent company Apollo Management). Under the country's 2020 MR5 law, companies labeled as "Private Electronic System Providers" had until this week to register with a government database or face an outright ban. Similar to India's restricti...